Previous Kippenberger Chairs
Find out about the international experts who have previously held the Sir Howard Kippenberger Visiting Chair in Strategic Studies.
Professor Alastair Iain Johnston
2023
Professor Johnston is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on socialization theory, identity and political behaviour, and strategic culture, mostly with application to the study of East Asian international relations and Chinese foreign policy.
Johnston is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995) and Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000 (Princeton University Press, 2008), and is co-editor of Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (Routledge 1999), New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford 2006), Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007), Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists (Cambridge 2009), and Perception and Misperception in American and Chinese Views of the Other (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2015).
View Professor Johnston's presentation of the Sir Howard Kippenberger public lecture 2023 on 'Identity, race and US-China conflict'.
Dr Sheila Smith
2019
Dr Smith is an expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, is senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is the author of Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (Harvard University Press, 2019), Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (Columbia University Press, 2015), which was released in Japanese as 日中 親愛なる宿敵: 変容する日本政治と対中政策 (Tokyo University Press, 2018), and Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance (Council on Foreign Relations, June 2014). She is also the author of the interactive website, “Constitutional Change in Japan.”
Smith is a regular contributor to the CFR blog Asia Unbound, and frequent contributor to major media outlets in the United States and Asia. She is vice chair of the U.S. advisors to the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), a bi-national advisory panel of government officials and private sector members. She also serves on the advisory committee for the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. She teaches as an adjunct professor at the Asian Studies Department of Georgetown University and serves on the board of its Journal of Asian Affairs. She earned her MA and PhD degrees from the department of political science at Columbia University.
Kippenberger Chair Lecture 2019
In her lecture, Dr. Sheila Smith discussed the future of the US-Japan alliance, as Tokyo seeks to cope with a rising China, a nuclear-armed North Korea and an unpredictable US administration. View lecture here
Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar
1 October – 30 November 2018
Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar is a Research Professor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and was the Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences and Humanities from 2001–10. She was Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs from 2010-2015 and from 2015 to 2017 as Deputy for Government Policy Support to the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia. She is also the Chair of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the Habibie Center, and a member of the Board of Advisors, the Institute for Peace and Democracy, the Bali Democracy Forum. Anwar was a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (2008–12), a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), based in Stockholm, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU, Australia.
Professor Toshihiro Nakayama
1 August – 1 September 2017
Toshihiro Nakayama is a Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).
He was a Special Correspondent for the Washington Post at the Far Eastern Bureau (1993-94), Special Assistant at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York (1996-98), Senior Research Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs (2004-06), Associate Professor at Tsuda College (2006-10), and Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University (2010-14). He was also a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2005-06). Dr Nakayama received his M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (2001) from School of International Politics, Economy and Business (SIPEB), Aoyama Gakuin University.
He has written two books and numerous articles on American politics, foreign policy and international relations. He appears regularly on Japanese media. Writes a monthly column for Japan News. He received the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award (Incentive Award) in 2014.
View Professor Nakayama's presentation of the Kippenberger Public Lecture 2017 on "Japan's Strategic Choices in a Dangerous World'
Professor Bates Gill
1 August – 10 September 2016
Professor Bates Gill is one of the world’s foremost experts on China and Asian strategic affairs and international relations. He is Professor of Asia-Pacific Studies at Australia’s leading university-based think tank, the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC).
He is also a Board Director for China Matters, a Sydney-based non-profit strategic advisory and public policy initiative. Prof Gill has a 25-year career in international affairs as a scholar, policy advisor, institution-builder, and active global citizen.
His research has taken him to more that 50 countries and he has published widely on international and regional security issues, including arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development. Dr Gill received his PhD in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, USA. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was inducted in to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars in 2007.
He is also recipient of the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests.
View Professor Gill's presentation of the Kippenberger Public Lecture 2016 on 'China's Future Under Xi Jinping'.
Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak
24 June – 18 August 2015
Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. He has published widely on Thai politics and political economy and on the geopolitical dynamics and comparative politics of Southeast Asia and ASEAN, and is an editorial board member of several leading journals.
Dr Pongsudhirak was educated in Thailand, the US, and UK, earning a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and PhD from the London School of Economics where his work was awarded the UK’s Best Dissertation Prize.
In June 2015, he received a prize for excellence in opinion writing by the Society of Asian Publishers (SOPA).
View Dr Pongsudhirak's presentation of the Kippenberger Public Lecture for 2015 on 'Global Disorder and Asia-Pacific Consequences: A Southeast Asia View'.
Professor Rosemary Foot
3 February – 11 April 2014
Professor Rosemary Foot (MA PhD (Lond) FBA), Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. She has been a fellow of the College since 1990, was Senior Tutor, 2002-2005, and Acting Warden of the College from December 2011 to September 2012.
Professor Zhu Feng
6 August – 7 September 2012
Zhu Feng, Professor, School of International Studies and Deputy Director Center for International and Strategic Studies, Peking University, People's Republic of China. View presentation to a public lecture on China's response to America's Asia-Pacific rebalancing: Implications for regional order.
Radio New Zealand: audio from an interview with Chris Laidlaw on the Sunday Morning Programme on 2 September 2012.
Dr C. Raja Mohan
7 February – 17 March 2011
Dr C. Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor of The Indian Express, New Delhi. View presentation to a public lecture on The clash of the elephants? Great powers and Asia's destiny.
Radio New Zealand: audio from an interview with Chris Laidlaw on the Sunday Morning programme on 6 March 2011.
Dr Muthiah Alagappa
16 November 2010 – 16 January 2011
Dr Muthiah Alagappa, Distinguished Senior Fellow, East-West Center, United States of America. View presentation to a public lecture on A changing Asia-Pacific: Prospects for war, peace, and order.
Radio New Zealand: audio from an interview with Chris Laidlaw on the Sunday Morning programme on 6 December 2010.
Professor Hew Strachan
6 July – 29 August 2009
Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Professor Geoffrey Till
4 February – 30 April 2008
Professor Geoffrey Till, Professor of Maritime Studies Defence Studies Department, Kings College, London and Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.